Letters, Mar. 5, 1945

The story in TIME (Feb. 5) of the boy brutally tortured and killed in
Seattle's King County Jail is one that should rouse to action every
juvenile officer, jail warden, mayor, policeman and governor in the
U.S.! It comes as a climax to the stories already being spread by
investigators all over the country as to local jail conditions and the
pitiful care being given juvenile delinquents.

What kind of a warden or caretaker is in that King County Jail, or any
other jail, that would turn a deaf ear to...